It seems that Quentin Tarantino, now with his eighth film, no longer seems to want to make purely escapist entertainment, he longer wants to give you a fun movie with a dance number and some action and a bunch of witty banter about pop culture. Instead, for a few years now, Tarantino has been making movies that have also set out to push buttons, and his films have made people engage in conversations about a wide array of topics, including racism in American history as well in American cinema, the use of violence as a way to resolve conflict, the power of the medium of movies and how it can be used as a weapon, the value or lack thereof of revenge fantasies. And now “The Hateful Eight” joins that list as a movie that has people talking.
Let’s add to the noise, shall we?
